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Sure Can Play That Guitar​!​!

by Tom Savage

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The shades are drawn / The nights are dank Your arms are wide /No one to thank The beast in you /Has been unleashed Give your convictions /An early release You be fair / And I'll be square Hold tight to the illusion / That I still care These games we play / Go on too long Think I'll pick up this guitar/And right some wrongs 1000 masters /Servant of none I'm here for the liquor/ And some good clean fun You bent the wire/ Until it snapped You were hot as fire/ But I still felt trapped In a house that burned/ In a haunted keep The bed frame melted/ While we counted sheep And from the dust/An angel rose In a black leather suit/And a rock star pose She hit the circuit/She slayed them all She was born of dreams/ And answered the call From Idaho /To Amsterdam A new messiah/With an all star band She crossed the ocean/She crossed the line She did it all /in 4/4 time She sunk her teeth into that meat/Embers still burning feeling that heat
2.
shapin and a shiftin and a rollin and a driftin a feelin and a fallin and a weeblin and a wobblin A failing and succeeding and a begging and a pleading not knowing where you going is the only way to go and I got a hundred dollars and a clean starched collar We're getting on down tonight I'm a boy who loves his mother and is kind to his brother don't need no one to tell me nothin in this life is free i got a hole in my pocket gonna shoot off like a rocket got a one way ticket Destination you can't pick it I'm a lover and fighter A licker and a biter We're gettin on down tonight Interstellar space travel The judge he bangs his gavel Says its just a pipe dream That may be the way it seems But when we're hangin out in bars Over on Jupiter or Mars We'll have the last laugh When he acknowledges his gaff They say 147 is the new 111 We're getting on down tonight Some say God isn't real That depends on how you feel If he's with you right now have him stand and take a bow He's done one helluva job to inspire the angry mob Who light torches in his name look for somebody to blame Blame the muslims, blame the jews Next time they might blame you We're getting on down tonight Well you're born and then you're dead Now go and get that through your head I'm in information retrieval I ain't no Evil Kneivel But one slip on icy stairs And it's all just splitting hairs End up in the same place With or without a suitcase If there is another side I won't be trying to hide We're getting on down tonight
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You get a hollowed out tree Put wires on the wood play it for a year or two Or until you get really good Go and ask for a job at the local bar Tell 'em you're the next big thing You're gonna be a star Mmmm you sure can play the guitar x2 You never could get the girl Never been on a date But then you picked up that six string And it sealed your fate Now everyone in town, they want to know your name And life as you know it ain't never gonna be the same Mmmmm you sure can play that guitar x2 A man from the big time, he came to see your show He had a few too many You told him where he could go Now you're down on the street And you're playing for change Life's a funny thing Yeah it sure is strange Mmmm you sure can play the guitar x2
5.
Train Blues 07:31
200 hundred dollars and a bottle of jack this train keeps a rollin X2 girl on my mind and a monkey on my back train keeps a rollin X2 an hour and a half until our destination I'm looking at 25 years incarceration got a heavy heart from the things i've done It takes a hard man to live this life on the run I sleep with a sharp blade under my bed comes down to him or me, he'll be the one who ends up dead bridge train keeps a rollin on through the night nothin but the darkness in its sight hounds are howlin and the moon is full where its gonna stop nobody knows when i was a kid i always flew straight loved everyone had no time for the hate then a girl came along ripped my heart in two the devil on my shoulder knew what he had to do If only these shackles weren't weighing me down I'd take this train, turn my life around once you're on that track it can be hard to see wake up to realize that you can never be free
6.
keep on riding til the road runs out keep on trying til there's left no doubt keep on hurtin til you feel no pain keep on pumpin the blood through your veins keep on living til your last breath's drawn keep on movin , keep a movin on keep on going til you get gone keep on learning til you know you're all wrong keep on laughing til tears fall from your eyes keep on spoiling til there is no surprise keep on living til your last breath's drawn keep on movin , keep a movin on keep your head on , keep it on straight don't go dreamin' about the pearly gates keep your feet firmly planted on the ground cause if there's a heaven , lord knows you're hell bound keep on living til your last breath's drawn keep on movin , keep a movin on keep on searching for something new keep on doing what it is you do keep on thinking about why it is the way it is may not get an answer, but there ain't gonna be no pop quiz keep on living til your last breath's drawn keep on movin , keep a movin on
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you'll come around to me you'll come around to me one day you're gonna see and you'll come around to me my lovin's gonna set you free x2 if you believe destiny you'll come around to me the heart can't divide the line x2 straight as an arrow or left behind the heart can't divide the line i know you got a worried head x2 put those past deeds to bed i know you got a worried head i'm a messenger without a message i'm a song without a rhyme i am optimism's last vestige i am the future running out of time i am the grim reaper kissing babies i am the goldfish holding its breath in a world full of yes, no, and maybe's i'm the crack whore on crystal meth i'm a weaving in and out of traffic i'm a bottle full of sleeping pills i'm a one last scuba diving lesson i'm a giving myself the chills i'm a wasted most hours of most days i'm a walking into walls and missing doors i think i'm working up to something i'm a gonna settle me some old scores you'll come around to me you'll come around to me one day you're gonna see what you've been missin' and you'll come around to me

about

As recording sessions for my 2017 release Everything Intertwined came to a close, we decided to add another day in the studio, switching out bass players(Seamus Cowan played on EI), and bringing in Geoff Chown to record some Blues tracks. It was a fun day of letting it all hang out musically and getting gritty, live off the floor at North of Princess studio. The recording turned out great, but was promptly put away in the archives for future considerations. In the ensuing years many crazy events occurred in this world of ours, so in the archives the Blues record stayed...

Until now!!!

Looking back at Everything Intertwined and now listening to Sure Can Play That Guitar, I see how my music and songwriting were turning a corner in 2017, and the seeds were being planted that would grow into what we now know as the band, Dead Root Revival.

Many songs have found their way into the DRR setlist. From EI, there's Kid, Burnt By The Sun, Come Home, and 17 Years, and on this record you will hear the familiar jams An Angel Rose, Train Blues, Moonshine Baby, as well as the title track.

I hope you enjoy this collection of previously unreleased material.

Rock and Roll,
Tom Savage

credits

released December 1, 2023

Tom Savage - electric guitar, vocals
Tony Silvestri - Fender Rhodes, piano
Bonz Bowering - drums
Geoff Chown - bass

Recording Engineer : Zane Whitfield
Assistant Engineer : Dylan Lodge
Mixed by Tom Savage
Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova

Cover Art by Lorraine Seguin

Produced by Tom Savage

All songs written by Tom Savage © 2023 Rabid Ear Music
except “It Ain’t Right” by Walter Jacobs
© BMG Platinum Songs

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Tom Savage Kingston, Ontario

Tom Savage is what one might refer to as a triple-threat. One part truth-telling troubadour, one part death-defying guitar slinger, and one part Country Blues howler. Each facet of his formidable on-stage persona carefully crafted over a 20+ year devotion to the composition and performance of song. Tom is a true believer. A disciple of melody and harmony and tempo and timbre. ... more

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